Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-05-27

| suited IN tho mon ON horseback-amonsg
whom was Frank Muller-being dispatched
to circumyent the herds and drive them
toward the carts, that took up their stations
at various points toward which the buck were
| likely to make.
Then came pause of quarter Of an hou,
or so, till, suddenly, from the far ridge of the
opposite slope, John saw couple of puffs of
white smoke float up into the air, and one az
the vilderbeeste below roll over on his back.
Kicking and plunging furiously. Thereon tho
| whole herd OF buck turned and came thunder
| ing toward them, stretched in a long limo
across the wide veldt; the springbucl first,
then the blesbuck looking, owing to their
| peculiar way Of holding their long heads
down as they galloped, for all the world like
herd Of great bearded goats Behind and
| mixed up with them were the viderbeeste.
who twisted and turned, and jumped into the
| air as though they had gone clean off their
heads and were next second going clean on
them. 1t is very difficult, owing to his ex-
traordinary method Of progression, to dis.
tinguish one part of galoping viderbeeste
from another; now it is his horns, now his
tail, and now his hoofs that present them
selves to the watchers bewidered vision. and
now again they all seem to be mixed up to-
gether. On came the great herd, making tho
| ground shake beneath their football; and
after them galloped the mounted Beers, every
now and again jumping from their horses to
lire shot into the line of game, which gen
| orally resulted in some poor animal being LEFT
| SPRAYING on tho ground, wherein the sports
| men would remount and continue the chase.
Presently tho buck were within range of
some or the guns IN the carts and a regular
fusillade began. About twenty besbuck
turned and came past John, within forty
yards of him. Springing to the ground, no
fired. both barrels of his express" at them as
| they tore past--alas and alasl without touch
ing them. The first bullet struck under their
bellies, the second must have shaved their
backs. Reoading rapidly, he fired again at
about 200 yards range and this time ono
| fell to his second barrel. But he knew that
| 1T was chance shot; he had fired at the lash
buck, and he had killed one ten PAGES in front
| OF him. The fact Of the matter is that this
sort of shooting is exceedingly difficult till ono
knows how TO do it.
Jumping into the cart again, and leaving
the dead blesbuck to look after itself for the
| present-not a very safe thing 20 do in a
country where there are so many vultures--
John, or rather Jamie, put the horses into a
gallop, and away they went at full tear
| Every few minutes or so they would pull up
whenever the game within range, and
John would spring from the cart and let
drive, and then jump in and follow on again.
This went on for nearly an hour, III which
time he had fired twenty -seven cartridges and
killed three blesbuck and wounded a Wider
beeste, which they proceeded to chase But
the vderbeeste was struck in the rump, and
a buck so wounded will go q long way, and
go very fast also, and some miles had been
got over before he began to rest only starting
on again as they drew near. At last, on
crossing the crest of a little rise, John saw
what at first he took to be his vilderbeeste
dead A second look, however, showed him
that, although it was a dead vilderbeeste it
most undoubtedly was not the one that he
had wounded, for that was standing, its head
hanging down, about 120 yards beyond the
other animal, which had no doubt, fallen to
somebody elsc's rifle, or else been wounded
farther back and come here to die Now tho
vilderbeesto lay within 100 yards of them,
and Jantje pointed out to John that his best
plan would DO TO get out of the cart and
creep on his hands and knees up to the dead
animal, from the cover of which he could get
a good shot at his own wounded bull
Accordingly, Jantje having Withdrawn
with the cart and horses out of sight under
the shelter of the rise, John crouched upon
his hands and knees and proceeded to carry
out his stalk. He got on all right till he got
quite close to tho dead COW, and was just con-
graduating himself on the prospect of an ex-
cellent shot at the wounded bull, when sud
denly something struck the ground violently
just beneath his stomach, throwing up O
cloud of earth and dust. He stopped amazed,
and as he did so heard the report Of rife
somewhat 10 his right. Scarcely had he
realized this when there was sudden COM